PRINTER'S NO. 985
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
871
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY KNOWLES, IRVIN, RYAN, MENTZER, KAUFFMAN, GROVE AND
METCALFE, MARCH 18, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, MARCH 18, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), entitled
"An act establishing rights in public employes to organize
and bargain collectively through selected representatives;
defining public employes to include employes of nonprofit
organizations and institutions; providing compulsory
mediation and fact-finding, for collective bargaining
impasses; providing arbitration for certain public employes
for collective bargaining impasses; defining the scope of
collective bargaining; establishing unfair employe and
employer practices; prohibiting strikes for certain public
employes; permitting strikes under limited conditions;
providing penalties for violations; and establishing
procedures for implementation," providing for employee
rights, for Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board and for
collective bargaining agreement.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of July 23, 1970 (P.L.563, No.195), known
as the Public Employe Relations Act, is amended by adding
sections to read:
Section 402. (a) A public employe shall have the right to
examine the use of membership dues collected by the public
employe's employe organization in the collective bargaining unit
on a regular basis. An employe organization representing a
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collective bargaining unit shall file a quarterly report to the
board within fifteen business days of the end of a calendar
quarter which contains the information specified under
subsection (b).
(b) The report required in subsection (a) shall contain the
following information:
(1) The names of all officers and employes of the employe
organization.
(2) The annual salary and benefit costs of all officers and
employes of the employe organization updated as of the date of
the end of the calendar quarter, including any salary or benefit
increase information that officers and employes received during
the calendar quarter.
(3) A detailed summary of all expenses incurred by the
employe organization during the calendar quarter, including
information on travel by officers or employes of the employe
organization to conventions, conferences, meetings and other
activities which required the expenditure of membership dues
collected by the employe organization or other fees voluntarily
paid by nonmembers in the collective bargaining unit.
(4) Any independent expenditures as defined in section
1621(e) of the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as
the "Pennsylvania Election Code," made by the employe
organization to influence elections, including the political
cause or purpose being supported.
Section 403. If applicable, the employe organization shall
provide the board with the annual report required to be filed in
under section 432 of the Labor-Management Reporting and
Disclosure Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-257, 29 U.S.C. ยง 432).
Section 504. The board shall establish and maintain a
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publicly accessible Internet website with the reports filed
under Article IV and copies of all collective bargaining
agreements filed under section 905.
Section 905. A public employer shall forward a copy of a
collective bargaining agreement to the board within fifteen days
of it being signed by both parties.
Section 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.
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